By The Cranky Housewife -
The eerily thin Barack Obama (Sure he is. Have you seen the pictures of him wasting away? Check out the UK Mail which claims that the stress of leading the country is making him frail. Really. He looks like the Crypt Keeper from Tales from the Crypt. Poor lighting, you say? Nah, it must be that all of those $10,000 a plate fundraisers are causing him acid reflux or some such nonsense. Maybe the constant pounding of basketballs with his image emblazoned on them is starting to give him a sick headache…and seriously. Whose brilliant idea was that anyway? I mean, how many conservatives immediately thought to themselves, “Hey. How much you want for one of those basketballs? I’ve got a sudden urge to dribble.”)
Sorry, I lost my train of thought. Where was I? Right. The eerily thin Barack Obama cryptically (grin) warned just hours after Santorum left the race that, “The more Americans see of [Mitt Romney], the less they like him.”
Would that this was true or Santorum would still be campaigning. I don’t know. I’m not a big Romney fan, but I do find this moment in our history to be a stunningly fresh change from our current four year sentence. Ironic, isn’t it? For the last three years, I have been living with the reality that the less I see (ugh, and especially hear – goodness, if he would just stop talking. Like fingernails on a chalkboard, my friend) of Barack Obama as he directs, produces and stars in his own droning, professorial lecture series on the evils of American Exceptionalism, the more I like him. I may be the only person in the nation who views the unyielding Obama vacation as a stay of execution for our free market economy. I personally think he hasn’t taken enough vacations. I think he should take more – lots and lots of vacations and maybe eat a few carbs while he’s at it. Drive through McDonald’s occasionally on his way to the golf course or something.
And trust me on this, Romney is not and never will be my first pick for a Republican candidate so this is saying a lot. Regardless of what the pollsters want you to believe about women voters and the gender gap, I will happily vote for Mitt Romney in November with no regrets whatsoever. Mitt’s campaign slogan – whatever it starts out as – might very well morph into, “I don’t like Mitt less than I don’t like Barack.” Not as pithy as you might like for your bumper sticker, but beggars can’t be choosers.
So there you have it. Let the games begin. With three years under our belt, we get to watch the painfully thin Barack Obama explain that – okay, yes. He does advocate raising taxes for “folks like [him]” which is apparently anyone making more than $35k a year, but that doesn’t mean that he believes in the redistribution of wealth. It will be kind of entertaining to watch Obama bending into so many unnatural positions that they could name a Pilates move after him. Pull up a chair and enjoy the show.
Oh. And he’s not, he repeats – not a socialist. Doesn’t actually know why people keep calling him one. That’s certainly not the first clue that he’s maybe become slightly disoriented in his wispy and delicate state during this election process – no word yet on whether this can be linked to an excessive intake of Tuscan kale, but he apparently thinks that he is running against Paul Ryan and the House Budget rather than Mitt Romney. This is just me, but there does seem to be some genuine angst on Obama’s part over the Ryan proposals, perhaps because he has seen so few budgets during his tenure as president that he has forgotten his constitutional role in the process. That may be why the Senate hasn’t produced one of its own in over a thousand days – out of deference to Barack Obama’s apparenty frail and withering constitution. No pun intended.
But there are a couple of points that can be taken from my rambling diatribe on presidential politics that are well worth remembering. The first point is that regardless of Barack Obama’s blistering campaign schedule, he might want to take a quick online course to help him bone up on economic theory and clear up his lingering confusion over socialism in its many forms. It really is quite impossible to have a productive conversation with someone who is in such complete and utter denial over his own political predilections.
The second point goes to Mitt Romney who would do well to remember that when conservatives do vote for him (which they will), it will be less because they like what he’s saying and more because they hate what the other guy is saying. If he can remember that and not let the conservative support of his candidacy go to his surprisingly wrinkleless head, together we can all forge a good working relationship and undo the fiscal savagery that beset this nation when Barack Obama took office three years ago.
